Google Drive and Dropbox are fine for storing your everyday files, but if you’re looking for a privacy-first alternative, ...

Windows has a secret vault. You're not using it.

Full disk encryption is the most commonly used encryption strategy in practice today for data at rest, but does that mean it’s sufficient to prevent unauthorized access to your data? The short answer: ...

Dell on Wednesday launched Dell Data Protection Encryption software. Targeted to SMBs and enterprise customers, Dell claims it provides flexible, manageable and auditable endpoint encryption while ...

Cloud storage is a reliable way to backup important files. Yes, you can always use an external hard drive or SSD, but as long as you're regularly backing up your data, the cloud is an excellent ...

Halcyon, the ransomware resilience platform, today announced File Resilience (FiRe), a new capability that prevents ransomware encryption before files are modified. By terminating encryption attempts ...

Any of these encryption apps can safeguard a file’s contents, but differ in terms of supported platforms, remote capabilities, and features. Large or small, every company has secrets it needs to keep ...

Most people think about encrypting files only when they upload something to the cloud. But there are plenty of files sitting on your own computer that deserve the same protection. That’s why I think ...

Couldn't figure out a better forum for this. Hopefully soon I'll have some money to buy a low-end NAS that I can use for backups which I can make a little safer than a connected USB drive, in terms of ...

In addition to Windows Vista Ultimate's fancy-pants dual-partition security technology, BitLocker (which I didn't have the hardware to try out, dammit), you can also encrypt individual files right ...